Hello and welcome to our group!
In this group, we’ll be discussing all things conservation tech education. That may seem broad and the intent of it is! Conservation tech ranges everywhere from mechanical engineering efforts to dispense treats to AI’s interpretation of camera traps and beyond. We’re looking at ways to expand and improve the training and education of conservation technology .
This thread is for you to introduce yourself and tell us what you’re doing and what you’d like to learn or see discussed in this group!
We are eager to hear from you and build the best conservation-tech training space around!
Suz and Andrew
1 November 2022 1:52am
Hi. I'm Akiba, an engineer working in conservation technology and 1/2 of FreakLabs. We're planning to publish training materials on how to both use and modify common tools in conservation tech as well as foundational skills required like soldering.
Sounds like an interesting group and definitely looking forward to participating in it.
Akiba
1 November 2022 12:45pm
I'm David, a just-defended PhD working primarily on acoustics and now on climate change and decarbonization. I'd love to see this group develop an easily accessible repository of existing training materials. There's a lot of stuff out there, but knowing that something exists and being able to find it are both very tricky.
One project I'll be working on that would fall under this group's purview (that I've posted about elsewhere in wildlabs) is a guide to IT for ecologists and conservationists.
1 November 2022 7:57pm
Hi all!
I'm Sara, and I'm very interested in developing interdisciplinary training opportunities in computer vision methods for ecology and environmental science. I'm excited to be a part of this group from the CV/ML/AI side!
Akiba